In today's rapidly changing digital world, children's lives are intricately intertwined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, permeating their experiences through various platforms like connected toys, apps, voice assistants, and online learning platforms. While these systems offer opportunities for supporting children's development and learning, they present grave risks to children's autonomy and agency through the pervasive practice of datafication and manipulation of their digital experiences and behaviours. Our project aims to address the pressing issue of fostering children's digital autonomy and resilience by promoting what we call 'algorithmic agency' in children, referring to children's ability to make independent choices and take actions within the digital environments governed by algorithms. The current lack of focus on supporting children's algorithmic agency greatly hinders the critical development of their digital resilience. Agency forms the basis of individuals' ability to regulate their thoughts, motivations, and behaviours based on their beliefs about themselves. However, currently, children's agency is particularly vulnerable to technological influence, designed to exploit their autonomy and shape their behaviours and decision-making. The notable absence of a shared, interdisciplinary understanding of children's agency in the digital context prevents the development of effective approaches to protect and nurture children's agentive capacities of self-regulation, self-reflection, intentionality, and foresight throughout their datafied childhood. In this project, we aim to leverage the interdisciplinary expertise and knowledge of computer scientists, learning scientists, social scientists, philosophers, to develop a comprehensive understanding of what algorithmic agency means for children in the digital context and define effective methods to create AI systems that actively foster and promote children's agency while respecting their values and rights. To achieve this, we will not only work directly with children and understand their voices but also with diverse groups of stakeholders, including parents, teachers, developers, and policymakers. Our objectives are organised around four themes: (i) a foundational understanding of children's algorithmic agency; (ii) new methods for building agency-fostering AI systems for children, (iii) timely guidance for parents, educators, and developers, and (iv) evidence-based AI policies that prioritise children's needs. The project brings together an experienced team of computer scientists, learning scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and public policy partners to delve into the complexities of algorithmic agency for children. Through its interdisciplinary insights, the project aims to deliver a deep understanding of the nature of children's agency and their associated needs in the context of their use of AI-enabled products and interventions. We will co-design principles for creating agency-fostering child-centric AI systems, and produce breakthrough empirical evidence through iterative prototype evaluation. We will create lasting impact by raising awareness of children's algorithmic agency for the public, industry, and policymaking. The outcomes of our project will provide timely impact and insights that bear on regulatory development, social welfare, and responsible innovation. It will shift the current mindset where children are passive consumers of technologies towards one where AI systems are designed to respect, nurture and scaffold the development of agentive competency in children, and equip them with better digital resilience and competence.

The AHRC Cultural Value Project (CVP) report acknowledges the value of the arts and culture to health, ageing and wellbeing, describing how: This dynamic field of research is characterised by a diverse range of subjects and approaches: from clinical outcomes to the effects in healthcare settings and community health; from physiological to mental health benefits; from targeted interventions to the effects of broader arts in health projects; from time-specific arts therapies to the effects of long-term arts engagement; from the acute to the preventative and, of course, health being seen not simply as the absence of illness or disease (p. 101). As part of the CVP, the Principal Investigator (PI) of the present project undertook research into the longitudinal association between arts and cultural engagement and health and wellbeing. This was referenced throughout the CVP report and informed one of its recommendations. As a direct consequence of this, the PI was enlisted as Researcher to an Inquiry instigated by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW). The APPGAHW Inquiry gave rise to a substantial report, which builds upon the CVP report to collate diverse evidence of the value of arts and cultural engagement to health and wellbeing across the life course. Launched in both Houses of Parliament in June 2017, the Inquiry report is aimed at the integration of arts approaches into the health and social care system. The Inquiry process identified a series of impediments to the widespread uptake of arts approaches within health and social care, which the present project seeks to overcome. The Inquiry also hosted an extensive series of discussions - involving parliamentarians, practitioners, service users and other stakeholders - which demonstrated a well-defined need for the widespread dissemination of research into the value of arts and culture to health and wellbeing. The present project will draw upon research conducted as part of the CVP and APPGAHW Inquiry to enhance acceptance, in policy and practice contexts, of the value of the arts and culture to health and wellbeing. The CVP report highlights the uneven character of the evidence base and argues for improved evaluation of arts and health projects using methods appropriate to the intervention and the knowledge sought. The present project will involve an exploration of forms of evidence appropriate to the field of arts and health, including those which challenge medical hierarchies. As part of this endeavour, discussions will be held with major funders in the field of arts and health, and the case will be made for the wider pursuit of appropriate mixed methods research. As its name suggests, this project entails a comprehensive programme of dissemination and advocacy. Policy-makers and decision-takers throughout the UK, including ministers, Members of Parliament and officials, will be presented with a range of evidence of the value of the arts and culture to health and wellbeing. Political, health and social care leaders will also be targeted in a bid to integrate the arts into mainstream health and social care commissioning. The PI will work with APPGAHW to present the most appropriate research-derived evidence to the leaders of NHS England and individual health trusts, clinical commissioning groups, local authorities, the Local Government Association and Public Health England. In a substantial and innovative part of this project, health and social care professionals (doctors, nurses, carers and technicians) will be approached with evidence of the value of culture to health and wellbeing. This will be done in a way that does not increase workloads, by intervening in major conferences. Passionate champions of the arts and health, including clinicians, practitioners and service users, will be invited to present arts and health work at relevant events, with the aim of overcoming a persistent lack of awareness of arts approaches.

This three-year project is a collaboration between the University of York and the Institute of Historical Research, in partnership with the Houses of Parliament and supported by the History of Parliament Trust. St Stephen's Chapel, at the heart of the Palace of Westminster, is one of the most extraordinary examples of continuity in British public life. Founded by Edward I and sumptuously decorated by Edward III, St Stephen's was representative of the alliance between monarchy and church which governed later medieval England. With the arrival of the Reformation, its college of dean and canons became redundant and St Stephen's entered a dramatic new phase in its existence, as the first permanent meeting place of the House of Commons. For nearly three hundred years, MPs met in a building that had once been a chapel, with opposing benches in place of choir-stalls and the Speaker's chair where the altar had once been. When the Commons' Chamber was gutted in the devastating fire of 1834, the space was re-named St Stephen's Hall and assigned another new role as the entry-way to the Gothic Revival palace built by Barry and Pugin, the form in which it survives to this day. By simultaneously reconstructing the history, art and architecture of St Stephen's Chapel, Hall and Cloister, this project helps us to understand one of the great national stories: the transition from sacred royal power to parliamentary democracy. Our project brings together a team of senior and early career historians and art historians, with different ways of working and across a chronology of seven centuries, to address a set of questions which no single discipline can comprehend. What role has St Stephen's played in British political culture, and what is its modern legacy? What contribution has St Stephen's made to the development of art and architecture, and in what ways has its fabric constructed or reflected its changing role in national life? Our multi-disciplinary approach is embedded in the structure of the project, which pairs historians and art historians in a series of complementary research topics in order to produce the fullest possible biography of this magnificent building. Topics investigated include the medieval college and canons of St Stephen's; the conversion from royal collegiate chapel to Commons' Chamber; Christopher Wren's refurbishment of St Stephen's, and antiquarian efforts to protect its architectural heritage; and the post-1834 Hall and surviving Undercroft chapel as a recreation of the splendour of the middle ages, a unique site of national memory. Why has the full span of this story never been told? Previous research on St Stephen's has been disjointed and surprisingly scant, presented in terms that limit its impact beyond the immediate academic specialism. Public appreciation is hindered by the difficulty in visualising a building with a complex history, and by problems of access to the stunning Cloister and Undercroft, both still in daily use; the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, on which St Stephen's was modelled, is far more visible and correspondingly better known. Our project tackles this deficit in scholarly and public understanding in three ways: by publishing a series of books, articles and conference papers covering all aspects of the historical, architectural and cultural significance of St Stephen's; by facilitating public access to St Stephen's Hall, Cloister and Undercroft during the 2015 colloquium and 2016 international conference; and through the Virtual St Stephen's strand, a digital reconstruction of the site during the different phases of its evolution, designed by the University of York's Centre for Christianity and Culture and utilising the data generated by the core team of investigators, research fellow and assistants, and PhD student. The resulting online resource, hosted by the Houses of Parliament, will guarantee the academic and public impact of our research far beyond the funded life of this project.

The Place-Based Climate Action Network (P-CAN) seeks to strengthen the links between national and international climate policy and local delivery through place-based climate action. The Network is innovative in its focus on local decision making. Clear policy signals by the government are essential, but the key to continued climate action increasingly lies at the local level, with the participation of local actors, businesses and citizens. Important decisions about low-carbon business opportunities, renewable energy investment, urban transport, energy management, buildings efficiency and the management of climate risks are decentralised and taken across the UK. P-CAN is about engagement, impact, and the co-creation and sharing of knowledge. The Network has the following components: 1. Place-based climate change commissions: We will develop three city-level climate commissions, in Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds. The concept is currently being piloted in Leeds as an innovative structure for sustained two-way, multi-level engagement between national and local policy and practice. We will work on the replication of these commissions in other local context to further broaden our reach. 2. Thematic platforms: There will be two theme-based platforms, on business engagement and green finance. These virtual networks will focus on two stakeholder groups that are particularly important for place-based climate action. They will be co-created with representatives from the business and sustainable finance community. 3. The P-CAN Flexible Fund: We will open the Network to the wider community of climate change researchers and research users by commissioning 20-30 small grants. The grants will be awarded competitively, with a focus on engagement activities, user-oriented analysis, innovative approaches and support for early-career researchers. 4. Communication and user-oriented research synthesis: An active outreach strategy will connect the place-based activities and inform wider climate action by co-producing, synthesising and communicating decision-relevant analysis. This programme of user-oriented outreach will leverage the work of P-CAN's host institutions and other ESRC investments. P-CAN is led by an experienced team of senior academics from a diversity of backgrounds. They all have strong track records of engaging with decision processes at the local, national and/or international level. Most of them have combined academic achievements with careers in business, finance, or international development. The Network PI is a former member of the Committee on Climate Change. The core team is supported by a full-time Network Manager, a Communications Officer and a group of Network Analysts who will provide analytical, administrative and logistics support for the five platforms (three local commissions and two thematic platforms). P-CAN will, to the maximum extent possible, leverage the existing administrative, research and engagement capabilities of its host institutions, including the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, and the Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Governance in Belfast. P-CAN will be successful if it can inform the climate change decisions of stakeholders across the five platforms. We will focus on activities that support key UK policy objectives and their local implementation, such as the city strategies of Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds, the UK Industrial Strategy, the Clean Growth Strategy, the statutory carbon budgets, the 25-year Environment Plan, the next Climate Change Risk Assessment, the recommendations of the UK Green Finance Task Force and the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) as well as the climate strategies of Scotland and Northern Ireland. P-CAN will respond flexibly to evolving demands. This will ensure that the platforms we create become self-sustaining and can be replicated elsewhere.

"Heritage science" refers to the "fascinating, rich and diverse range of scientific challenges" associated with conserving movable and immovable heritage. Its significance should not be underestimated. Heritage, through tourism, makes a substantial contribution to the economy (£7.4 billion a year), and the sustainability of that contribution depends on heritage science. In November 2006, we published a report entitled Science and Heritage in which we acknowledged that the UK had a high reputation in the field of heritage science but warned that UK standing was "under threat" and that the heritage science sector was "fragmented and under-valued". (House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (2012). Science and Heritage: A follow-up. London: HMSO p4) In 2007, on the recommendations of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) launched the Science and Heritage Programme to fund research activities to deepen understanding and widen participation in heritage science. During the following 7 years, this £8.1 million multi-disciplinary, collaborative Programme has funded 48 projects involving more than 300 researchers, 234 institutions and 50 industry partners both in the UK and overseas. The purpose of this Impact Fellowship proposal is to strengthen the dissemination of research activities supported by the Science and Heritage Programme, with a particular focus on developing the relationship between heritage science researchers and industry in order to promote heritage science innovation and to inform policymakers of the value of heritage science to culture and the economy. For heritage science researchers to fully contribute to public benefit and economic growth a shift in attitude by both researchers and industry has to take place to create stronger strategic links and to exploit opportunities which anecdotal evidence suggests there are industry sectors that could benefit from heritage science research and innovation. Currently, the heritage tourism industry is the best understood industry utilising heritage science research and this will be considered alongside other business sectors such as construction and property development; creative media; insurance; forensics and security and sensors and instrumentation. Through a series of workshops, face-to-face interviews and data collection and analysis, the Fellowship will identify the benefits, impacts and growth opportunities produced by heritage science research and innovation, along with the research projects that have contributed wider benefits to policy, industry and the heritage sector and the industry sectors that utilise, or could utilise heritage science research. By examining industry needs, the skills and training required by future heritage scientists to engage with industry can be identified and evidence can be provided to produce recommendations on how policy could support the development of an innovation systems framework for heritage science. This will in turn be used to promote an innovation culture among researchers and industry willing to explore the business potential of research outputs. The research will be underpinned by a number of leadership development activities including publishing commissioned articles for Research Fortnight and Research Professional. Key outputs from the research will be published on the Science and Heritage Programme website and will include: a database of projects that demonstrate the benefits and impacts of heritage science research; a case study on skills training for heritage scientists and recommendations on how policy could support the development of an innovation systems framework for heritage science.